The first farms and towns, sentence 10
Dogs were the first tamed animals, long before farming; sheep, goats, cattle and pigs came later, and horses much later.
Who acts: Dogs, sheep · What happens: tame, be, farm, come · To what, where: first tamed animals
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 animals | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 animals | amod |
| 5 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 farming | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 farming | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 farming | mark |
| 10 | farming | farm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 came | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sheep | punct |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goats | punct |
| 14 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sheep | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cattle | punct |
| 16 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sheep | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pigs | cc |
| 18 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sheep | conj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | parataxis |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 later | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 later | cc |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 later | nsubj |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 later | advmod |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 came | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Dogs | the first tamed animals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | farm | gerund | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs not said here | long property | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:10.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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